financial firms

About 10 South Korean insurers, including Hanwha Life Insurance Co. Ltd., have invested 300 million pounds ($394 million) in one of the UK’s largest i...

Morgan Stanley led South Korea’s merger advisory services market in 2018, accounting for 8.6 trillion won ($7.7 billion) worth of takeover deals, ...

Two small South Korean financial services companies have acquired a landmark office building in central Warsaw for 183 billion won ($162 million) in t...

A consortium of South Korean financial institutions has been in exclusive talks to buy the Canary Wharf headquarters of Credit Suisse Group in a deal ...

KB Asset Management Co. Ltd. and other units of South Korea’s top banking group KB Financial Group co-invested 90 million euros ($103 million) in a se...

The National Pension Service (NPS) has poured around $100 million into a co-investment led by a Morgan Stanley fund to acquire units of a US shale gas...

Hana Financial Investment Co. Ltd. has bought new preferred shares issued by a US real estate investment trust company for $125 million, ahead of the ...

Hyundai Investments Co. Ltd. has completed the €235 million ($275 million) acquisition of a seven-story office building in the Paris metropolitan area...

An independent South Korean investment firm has become the first institutional shareholder in Hyundai Mobis Co. Ltd. publicly supporting the Hyundai M...

Hyundai Motor Group has bolstered the roster of its advisors with the addition of Goldman Sachs and US law firm Latham & Watkins LLP to step up fi...

The Construction Workers Mutual Aid Association (CWMA) and Korea Investment & Securities Co. Ltd. have invested around 38 billion won ($36 million...

South Korea’s construction materials company, Aju Group, closed a $87 million acquisition of a hotel near Seattle from Marriott International Inc. las...

Shinhan Investment Corp. has extended a $175 million loan on a prime office tower in Chicago, a rare case in which a South Korean brokerage house sour...

Three global private equity firms – Blackstone, Carlyle and TPG – have gathered an aggregate $113 million in commitments from South Korean institution...

Hana Financial Group, the parent company of KEB Hana Bank, will acquire a shopping center building and its surrounding land in a small Japanese city...

KTB Asset Management Co. Ltd. has raised 120 billion won ($106 million) from three South Korean financial services firms for a blind-pool fund to inve...

Goldman Sachs’ Special Situations Group (SSG), which invests in and lends to distressed companies, is in talks with South Korean retirement savings fu...

After the National Pension Service (NPS) agreed to buy a 30% stake in Britain’s High Speed 1 (HS1) for around 400 billion won ($355 million) in July, ...

Hana Financial Investment Co. Ltd. has underwritten $40 million of secured debt, part of $269 million debt financing to fund asset manager Capital Dyn...

Two former global alternative investment heads of South Korea’s National Pension Service (NPS) moved to the country’s top law firms to advise on alter...

Hana Financial Investment Co. Ltd. is tapping South Korean insurers and savings funds to arrange a 500 billion won ($445 million) financing of a new n...

Two South Korean brokerage firms – KB Securities Co. Ltd. and Kiwoom Securities Co. Ltd. – have teamed up to buy a logistics center for 167 billion wo...

Two South Korean financial institutions have invested $52.5 million in mezzanine debt backed by an office building in Manhattan, which was issued to r...

Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) is looking to diversify its portfolio into emerging markets, in particular Asia, and will chase smaller-sized firms...

South Korea’s savings funds may come under direct supervision of the country’s top financial watchdog as the Financial Services Commission (FSC) is se...

NongHyup Financial Group Inc., a holding company of South Korea’s national agricultural cooperative, is raising a 300 billion won ($264 million) blind...

Yellow Umbrella Mutual Aid Fund, South Korea’s savings fund for small-sized business owners, will likely allocate 300 billion won ($265 million)...

Four South Korean institutional investors will acquire 100 billion won ($88 million) worth of senior debts secured on two US gas-fired power plants fr...

The Military Mutual Aid Association’s (MMAA) former equity head Jae Dong Kim was installed this month as its first chief investment officer chosen fro...

Hana Financial Investment Co. Ltd. has underwritten $75 million senior debts sold by a Swiss private asset manager to fund a US solar power plant acqu...